08 Sep 2017 4:04 PM |
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Fall is in the air and it's going to be a beautiful weekend! Get your friends and colleagues together and help us keep White Rock Lake Park beautiful!

Thanks to generous sponsors like White Rock Chick-fil-a, Tom Thumb Arboretum Village, Starbucks Arboretum Village, and Oak Farms Dairy, we can provide breakfast before you head out to the park. We can also provide trash bags and gloves courtesy of Lowes and Baylor Scott & White Hospital at White Rock Lake. We hope to see you there!

Interested in kayaking? Saturday is REI Paddle Day at Jackson Point. REI is partnering with our Adopt-A-Shoreline group, KayakPower. Learn about on-lake recycling and trash pickup from the experts at KayakPower. REI has prizes for the first 20 paddlers returning with a full bag of trash. Meet up is at White Rock Lake Park, 4001 W. Lawther Dr., Dallas, TX 75214.

07 Sep 2017 4:16 PM |
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"The newly-formed Craig T. Nelson Book/Wine Club cordially invites all ladies of HSMNA to its first official meeting on the third Thursday of September (September 21) at 7:00 pm at 7012 Lindsley Ave. Our chosen varietal for September is pinot noir, so please bring a bottle to share. Our book for September (in honor of Craig's award-winning performance in the dramatic reenactment of same) is Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton. Books going forward will be chosen by those who volunteer to host (bonus points if your choice is within 6 degrees of our illustrious namesake)."

07 Sep 2017 10:03 AM |
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Hello, everyone,

We continue our 2nd & 4th Saturday maintenance program at our pollinator garden this coming Saturday, September 9th, 8-10AM. If you can help, bring your hat, gloves, and a hand tool. Keeping the beds’ borders clean is the main maintenance chore; it’s not hard work but something that needs to be regularly done.

At 10AM, Heath Quinnelly will host a special tutorial on making Mason bee houses (see attached PDF). Bring your children or a friend and take home a bee house!

As always, parking is along East Grand, between Tenison Memorial Drive and Blair at the northeast edge of our neighborhood. We hope to see you then!

01 Sep 2017 8:49 AM |
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Harvey-induced flooding in southeast Texas has led to shutdowns at some refineries and pipelines in the region, causing fuel shortages—exacerbated by a frantic perception of fuel shortages—at gas stations throughout North Texas.

While the scene in Dallas hasn’t quite devolved into a Mad Max-ian scramble for dwindling gas reserves in a post-apocalyptic desert, your social media feed and office-wide emails have probably reported difficulties in filling up. Long lines. Frustration. Some gas station owners are predicting they’ll run dry by the end of the Labor Day weekend — QuikTrip told theStar-Telegram it plans to stop selling gas at half its stores over the next couple days, and all three Fuel Cities are anticipating empty pumps come Monday.

Informal tip lines about where to find gas have sprung up online, and GasBuddy.com is a resource tracking (slightly rising) prices and availability at individual stations throughout North Texas. QuikTrip is updating a list of stores that currently have gas. RaceTrac is doing the same. And we hear, through the admittedly unreliable grapevine, that stores in the Mid-Cities and along Riverfront in Dallas are doing just fine for now. The 7-Eleven at Maple and Oak Lawn began attracting drivers early in the morning. A line at an Exxon in North Dallas snaked out into the street, blocking cars wanting to turn right from Preston onto Frankford.

In an interview with Channel 8, Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton told everybody to chill. “Concerns and even panic over gasoline shortages is leading to a sense that there’s a gasoline shortage,” creating the long lines and depleted gas stations, he said. A problem of supply and demand. It’s turtles all the way down.

“Don’t panic” is always sound advice, but especially now. There’s no need to start loading up the emergency bunker with gas canisters. The EPA and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s Department of Energy have waived certain fuel requirements to make more gasoline available and to shore up shortages. The Texas Food and Fuel Association says that fuel terminals are beginning to reopen, although in some cases on a limited basis. There’s been no consensus estimate on how long this might last, as responders begin to pick up the pieces in the Houston area and surrounding counties, but a needless pile-up to rush to the gas station will only make things worse.

While a gas shortage may be a particular source of consternation for families plotting a Labor Day weekend getaway, it seems like a good idea to stay put for now, as much as possible. Walk. Ride a bike. Use DART. Help the people recovering from Harvey. Let emergency responders and southeast Texas residents trying to return home get to the pump first.

09 Aug 2017 9:28 AM |
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It's Time for a Spruce Up!

Join Us August 12 for Second Saturday Shoreline Spruce Up!

Help us keep White Rock Lake Park beautiful! Once again, rain brought litter into White Rock Lake and the park. We now have a lovely ring of litter along the shoreline. Help us get it all collected and into the trash or recycling. Get your friends and colleagues together and enjoy a nice day in the park and give back to the community at the same time. Thanks to our Second Saturday sponsors, we can provide snacks and clean-up supplies. We hope to see you there!

26 Jul 2017 12:00 AM |
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Raymond Erwin’s legacy of cooking of salty traditional barbecue with true Texas flair began in 1952, when he took a job under restaurateur Jimmy Underwood, who had establishments all over Dallas.

Erwin spent decades learning the craft of barbecue, from how the make fall-off-the-bone ribs to never-dry turkey to the perfect Southern sides that brought the whole plate together. He spent much of his time at Underwood’s Barbeque, which opened in 1964 at 10920 Garland Road. In 1981 he took over the location and renamed it Raymond’s Bar-B-Q.

It was a no-muss, no-fuss kind of place where food was served on cafeteria trays and sodas cost 85-cents even into the 2000s. The butter-yellow booths and kitschy ‘50s décor made it seem like one of those true road-side restaurants you see in old photos on Texas highways.

He sold the building in 2004, but his namesake business kept on until new owners moved their Monterrey BBQ and Mexican Cuisine into the Garland Road location.

But during his many decades in Casa View, Erwin was known for doing things the same way. He kept his flavors consistent and used the same chili bean recipe since 1957. Here it is, first shared with the Advocate in July 1999, and dusted off just in time for the summer grilling season.

Raymond’s chili beans

2 cups dried kidney beans (Raymond prefers Colorado Mile High Beans)

5 cups water

½ cup chili powder

¼ cup salt

2 tablespoons black pepper

1 teaspoon vegetable shortening

Dash of cayenne pepper (to taste)

Soak beans overnight in the water in a large pot.

Bring beans to a boil and add shortening, waiting until it melts to stir.

Reduce heat to low and cover, cook until beans are soft (about 2 hours). Add water if necessary to keep beans fully covered.

Add spices, and cook another 5 minutes.

For best taste, let beans sit at least 45 minutes to soak in all the flavor.

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